A crowd gathers at a Wallace for Governor rally held in Clayton, Alabama. The signs of the times are evident in this photograph, from the Confederate monument in the center of the photograph to the campaign banner reading "help keep Alabama...

A crowd greets the riverboats Apollo and Pleasure Bay as they return to Mobile loaded with passengers. The boats had probably been transporting their passengers across Mobile Bay, maybe from Fairhope. This photo was most likely taken around 1905.

A large crowd gathers at Monroe Park in Mobile, Alabama, to see an airplane takeoff. Monroe Park was established by Howard Wilson, who owned the local streetcar line. He built the park as a way to attract riders to the end of the streetcar line. It...

As a means of shortening trading routes, interested parties had long wanted to construct a waterway to connect the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. That dream finally became a reality in January 1985, when the Tenn-Tom Waterway was officially...

Vernadean, the dragon associated with the Mystics of Time parading society, has been featured ever since their first parade in 1949. Here she is in 1950, winding down the street as maskers throw trinkets to the crowd.